Word: civic
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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Chicago is considered one of the most likely places in which to hold the Olympic games of 1924. Initial steps to have this effected are being taken by prominent sporting men and civic leaders. Chicago was decided a suitable location as a result of the announcement that the contract for the games had been let to the largest stadium in the world. This stadium probably to be constructed in the windy city, will be horseshoe shaped and built of marble and concrete, and will have a seating capacity of 100,000, according to the present plans. The cost is estimated...
...Schools of Rochester; Dr. Stephen P. Duggan, Director of the Institute of International Education; Mr. Hermann Hagedorn, Secretary of the Roosevelt Memorial Association, and myself, as chairman, calls for a co-ordination in the name of America and in the spirit of Roosevelt of the physical, intellectual and civic activities of the schools and colleges of the country...
...With Roosevelt's balance of physical vigor, mental energy and civic responsibility as an example, the plan as we have drawn it up, stipulates, that the purpose of the organization shall be, in general, to stimulate in schools and colleges the appreciation of the balance of body, brain and spirit in the well-moulded man, and specifically, first, to help the feeble body to become strong; second, to encourage the eager mind to find expression; and third, in the spirit of Roosevelt's practical idealism, to develop intellectual patriotism and the understanding of the duties and opportunities of American citizenship...
...principal function of the Roosevelt America League will be to correlate and combine every school or college activity, physical, intellectual and civic, to the end that all these activities may find their focus in the one word--America...
...Such are the general purposes of the organization whose formation we are recommending to the Roosevelt Memorial Association. The details call for certain definite efforts for physical development, intellectual expression and civic or patriotic work. These details are stated in the report which the Committee has drawn up and which is now being printed in pamphlet form for general information, criticism and comment...